R: 1-D Scatter Plots

stripchart {base}

R Documentation

1-D Scatter Plots

Description

stripchart produces one dimensional scatter plots (or dot plots) of the given data. These plots are are good alternative to boxplots when sample sizes are small.

Usage

stripchart(x, method="overplot", jitter=0.1, offset=1/3,
           vertical=FALSE, group.names,
           xlim=NULL, ylim=NULL, main="", ylab="", xlab="",
           pch=0, col=par("fg"), cex=par("cex"))

Arguments

`x`	the data from which the plots are to be produced. The data can be specified as a single vector, or as list of vectors, each corresponding to a component plot. Alternatively a symbolic specification of the form `x ~ g` can be given, indicating the the observations in the vector `x` are to be grouped according to the levels of the factor `g`. `NA`s are allowed in the data.
`method`	the method to be used to separate coincident points. The default method `"overplot"` causes such points to be overplotted, but it is also possible to specify `"jitter"` to jitter the points, or `"stack"` have coincident points stacked. The last method only makes sense for very granular data.
`jitter`	when jittering is used, `jitter` gives the amount of jittering applied.
`offset`	when stacking is used, points are stacked this many line-heights (symbol widths) apart.
`vertical`	when vertical is `TRUE` the plots are drawn vertically rather than the default horizontal.
`group.names`	group labels which will be printed alongside (or underneath) each plot.
`xlim`, `ylim`, `main`, `ylab`, `xlab`, `pch`, `col`, `cex`	Graphical parameters.

Details

Extensive examples of the use of this kind of plot can be found in Box, Hunter and Hunter or Seber and Wild.

Examples

x <- round(rnorm(50), 1)
stripchart(x)

[Package base version 1.5.0 ]